Rapper Kojo Cue has revealed that he stepped away from music for nearly two years after a painful personal loss that left him unable to cope the way he normally would.
Speaking on “The Pesewa” podcast aired on May 3, 2026, he recounted how he and his wife, Professor Priscilla Kolibea Mante, lost their twin daughters following a premature birth during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He explained that the babies were born in 2020 and placed in an incubator for about two weeks, but they sadly did not survive.
“In 2020, my wife had twins, twin girls, but she had them prematurely, and they were in an incubator for about two weeks. This was during the height of COVID. Then they died, and we went into lockdown,” he shared.
The rapper said the tragedy altered his emotional balance and forced him into unfamiliar territory, as music, which usually served as his refuge, no longer provided comfort.
“I just went down another path altogether, and it got so terrible that… because usually, when I have all these things, where I go to is music. Music, but I couldn’t. It was too fresh, more than I anticipated it to be,” he noted.
He added that instead of processing the grief through his art, he withdrew completely and tried to distract himself in any way possible.
“So I was trying to run from it for as long as I could. I was trying to find other things, now that I couldn’t do it through music. So I quit music. I was doing anything and everything just to take my mind off it.”
Kojo Cue also reflects on the experience in his song “Gold Dust” off the album “KANI: A Bantama Story,” where he details how the moment forced him to confront fear, faith, and loss simultaneously.
The track captures the emotional intensity of that period, including the panic, prayers, and fragile hope that surrounded the pregnancy and its heartbreaking outcome.
